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Photos from the Torch Relay

Friday, 29 June 2012 23:14

What an amazing turn-out in the Derbyshire Dales as on Friday 29 June the Olympic Torch was cheered through one of the most beautiful areas on the Relay map.

We're still updating our Flickr gallery of photographs from the Torch's tour of Matlock, Darley Dale, Bakewell and Ashbourne, where tens of thousands of people gathered to welcome the iconic flame.

Derbyshire Dales District Council led partner groups in organising a host of events around the Torch's visit on Day 42 of its trip to the Olympic Stadium in London.

Below are some taster images - and a massive thank you from everyone involved in the organisation to you for turning out in such huge numbers.

The Olympic Parade of schoolchildren gathers around Matlock's Hall Leys Park bandstand

Matlock Band performing in Hall Leys Park

Crowds gather outside Darley Dale's Whitworth Centre

Happy faces in the young crowd at Darley Dale

Torch bearer Ben Hope carries the flame through Darley Dale

Residents from Bakewell Cottage Nursing Home await the flame in the town's Rutland Square

Huge crowds await the flame in Bakewell's Rutland Square

Somewhere in there is Bakewell Torch bearer Frances Dalrymple-Smith

Any vantage point will do in Ashbourne

Chairman of the District of the Derbyshire Dales Cllr Tony Millward with his Shrovetide ball

Cllr Millward leads Ashbourne Band in the Shrovetide Procession

The Shrovetide Procession in Ashbourne

More from the Shrovetide Procession in Ashbourne

Female, smiling, looking at a latop screen

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